Net Neutrality Laws

Sen. Franken: 'We Can't Lose Net Neutrality'

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Net Neutrality protects a level playing field on the Internet, where anyone can connect, create and innovate. Without Net Neutrality, Al Franken says, Internet service providers would be able to return as gatekeepers to all expression.

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The Internet as We Know it Is Still at Risk

Al Franken | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just as the open internet movement was instrumental in improving regulations from the FCC's first draft proposal, we'll be critical in ensuring that the regulations voted on this week are enforced vigorously.

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Net Neutrality Is Hypocrisy

Dave Winer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Net neutrality is a nice idea, but it's hypocritical to demand that of their vendors when they don't provide it to their users. For some reason they are never called on this hypocrisy by the tech press.

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The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time

Al Franken | Posted 05.25.2011

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This Tuesday is an important day in the fight to save the Internet. The FCC will meet to discuss its badly flawed proposal for net neutrality. If they approve it as is, I'll be outraged. And you should be, too.

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Preserving a Free and Open Internet

Julius Genachowski | Posted 05.25.2011

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We must take action to protect consumers against price hikes and closed access to the Internet -- and our proposed framework is designed to do just that.

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FCC Chair Proposes Garbage, Calls it Net Neutrality

Marvin Ammori | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in DC of being a "tepid" regulator. From reports of his just released net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.

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Dems Propose Bill That Would Gut FCC's Ability To Protect Net Neutrality

Tech Daily Dose | Posted 05.25.2011

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The FCC will not have rulemaking authority under a network neutrality bill that key House Democrats plan to introduce soon, according to a recent draf...

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Net Neutrality and Regulation of the World Wide Web

John M. Eger | Posted 05.25.2011

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France is calling for technology that filters unlicensed music and movies from the Internet, while South Korea imposed rules requiring internet users to register for video-sharing sites with their real names.

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House Dems Pan Google-Verizon Deal, Urge FCC To Act On Net Neutrality

Posted 05.25.2011

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Four Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee penned a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski Tu...

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About the Verizon/Google "Deal" on Net Neutrality

Marvin Ammori | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Google-Verizon deal proves that network neutrality rules are necessary. And it proves that the FCC's negotiation-talks receive little respect from the corporations engaged in them (maybe for good reason).

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Protect Consumers by Ensuring Internet Freedom

Rep. Jay Inslee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Without addressing the rules, service providers will become the arbitrators of the Internet. They will decide what you can and cannot access.

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REPORT: Net Neutrality Opponents Outspend Proponents Four Times Over

readwriteweb.com | Marshall Kirkpatrick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Companies opposed to Network Neutrality spent more than 4 times as much money on lobbying last quarter than organizations in support of it, according ...

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Keeping the Internet Free at Home and Abroad

Nancy E. Soderberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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The two of us come from different political parties, but we both support expanding Internet use at home and abroad as an essential component of free speech and organizing free assembly.

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Internet Showdown: Conservatives v. Justice Scalia

Aparna Sridhar | Posted 05.25.2011

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The FCC recently proposed to modernize its policymaking framework for broadband, closing a loophole first created by the Bush Administration. So the industry fear-mongering we're now seeing isn't surprising.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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I should sue John McCain. Three and a half years ago, writing about Net Neutrality, the attempt to guarantee the Internet stays free and open, I said that it was a slam-dunk issue being hampered by a lousy name -- one that evokes a tennis match in Switzerland or basketball players who don't choose sides. And I suggested some alternatives, including The Fast, Downloadable Porn Act and The Internet Freedom Act. Cut to last week, when McCain, the number one recipient of telecom campaign cash in Congress, introduced a bill that would effectively kill Net Neutrality. The name of his bill? The Internet Freedom Act! Paging George Orwell! War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, and Freedom is... an Internet controlled by AT&T and Verizon. We can't let that happen. Support Net Neutrality. Let's start by giving it a better name.

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Support Net Neutrality

Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding an important meeting to consider a net neutrality framework for the internet.

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FCC Unanimously Supports 'Net Neutrality' Rule In Face Of Fierce Telecom Lobby

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. communications regulators voted unanimously Thursday to support an open Internet rule that would prevent telecom network operators from barring o...

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Time for Net Neutrality

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since its earliest days, the Internet has been guided by the principles of non-discrimination and freedom. And as it continues to evolve, we are now faced with a choice.

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McCain Battles Google, Twitter, eBay Coalition Over Net Neutrality

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certai...

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Moment of Clarity - How To Easily Win on Net Neutrality

Lee Camp | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's CyberSecurity Speech Shows He Gets the Open Web

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Administration support for an open, non-discriminatory and competitive Internet is wonderful. It will be even more wonderful when we get some Congressional support for that Internet.

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Net Neutrality is Not About Regulation

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

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Net neutrality sounds abstract, but it's pretty simple: It's about the Internet being a level playing field for everyone who wants to use it as their own printing press.

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